001 > Nepeta: purrsue enquiries

[bestestfurrend]

:33 < *ac yawns and covers her mouth with her paw befur taking a look around*
:33 < *this isnt where she went to sl33p yesterday, she thinks as she grooms her fur*
:33 < *the sl33py kitty doesnt remember falling asleep at all, actually!*
:33 < *so she finds it purrty unusual that shes somewhere so different now*
:33 < and this device is weird beclaws theres no trollian on it at all!
:33 < so it takes a pawfully long time to type all this
:33 < *ac bats at the display some more with her paws*
:33 < this is a pretty cute bracelet though :33

:33 < i dont suppaws any of my furrends are around here?
:33 < they are grey like me and have horns and some of them like karkitty yell a lot
:33 < i would appurreciate it furry much if anyone could tell me where to find them :33
:33 < especially equius beclaws im worried about him
:33 < hes big and has a broken horn and wears sunglasses all the time!
:33 < i guess thats it fur now!

[A few seconds of video flash on after the text cuts out - a small grey troll with cat-like horns and a kitty hat is indeed pawing at the bracelet's display, looking a great deal more anxious than the text let on.]

It can't be true, nuh uh, I was just having a furry furry bad dream...oh no! Oops.

[She notices her mistake with the transmission, and this time it cuts off finally.]

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[alternia_strength]

They are. Either neighboring districts or close to. I cannot remember.

Yes, let us see your room. That seems a good use of our time under the circumstances. I cannot remain forever however. It is uncomfortable.

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[bestestfurrend]

Oh, good! I can come and visit you all the time. And my room is that way.

[She points, still clinging around his neck and hoping he'll take the hint and carry her.]

Why is it uncomfortable?

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[alternia_strength]

[He shrugged and tapped one of the walls before catching onto her intent and sighing, shaking his head and allowing her to ride. After all, she had just had a hard time of it. He could dote, right?]

These gods are territorial. They do not like us in other houses, and you will feel it when you visit. A few hours are fine though.

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[bestestfurrend]

[He definitely could! Nepeta approves highly of being doted upon.]

Oh...I don't think I like the sound of that. Isn't there anywhere we could stay together where that wouldn't happen?

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[alternia_strength]

Hmmm? [Said, hauling her about.]

I believe there is paid housing if we find work. We could establish a commune for some of our fellows, at least the ones who are not severely derelict in some fashion such as the sea dweller.

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[bestestfurrend]

I could work! It would be fun if a bunch of us could all live together! ...the ones who are less likely to fight, though. There was enough of that back home.

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[alternia_strength]

It would be preferable not to have those who would enter some sort of strife in the same house. we can handle such conflict in other places after all. It is our nature to wage war, but perhaps not at our homes.

A time and place for everything.

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[bestestfurrend]

Yes, that's right! [She waves at a nearby door.] That's it! Number 101! That's mine!

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[alternia_strength]

Convenient.

[He led her towards the room and set her down in front of the door with a grunt, reaching up to stroke his chin.]

I have also considered opening up shop or getting employment as a mechanic. This city is so deplorably poor in technology though.

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[bestestfurrend]

[She opens the door and bounces in, much cheered up from before. Her bed has already been unmade, the mattress on the floor and the blankets and pillows piled onto it in a sort of pillow pile fortress.]

That's an even better reason to open a shop like that! You could make lots of impurrovements for them!

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[alternia_strength]

It seems difficult to actually create them in this place. However, with the alchemizing powers I have been granted, I should be able to ...

You have most definitely already found this room, I see.

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[bestestfurrend]

[She laughs, flopping onto her pile and patting the space next to her.]

What powers? Tell me! What can you do? They told me I could charm people, but I'm not sure how it's a power yet!

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[alternia_strength]

[He pulled out a stencil pad. He had improved since he got here, which gave him considerably greater leeway. Starting to draw on it, he pulled a small hand towel from the paper as a way of demonstrating.]

I have heard of that power, but I have not seen it work. I am able to produce punch cards by drawing them and alchemize them into being myself. I think I provide the grist as stamina.

At least that is my best understanding from peoples' explanations.

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[bestestfurrend]

Oh my paws!!! Anything you draw becomes real? Do it again, I want to see, I want to see! Draw me something cute!

[She's nearly flailing with delight, all eager and excited.]

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[alternia_strength]

Cute? It is not that I mind the demonstration, but I am unsure that it is appropriate for one with as much rage as myself to draw cute.

[It was also debatable if he knew how.]

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[bestestfurrend]

But I'm here now! [She pats his arm for him.] So there's no reason to be angry! Look, I'll show you, it's easy! [She holds her hand out for the stencil pad.]

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[alternia_strength]

I am always full of rage, Nepeta. It is not merely the Highblood that stokes it right now. [He flinched and reached up to scratch his head in embarrassment at the pat before handing her the pad and pencil.]

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[bestestfurrend]

[She takes them, but doesn't start drawing just yet, looking at him in concern instead.] Is there anything bothering you more than usual here? You can talk to me if there is! You know it's what I'm here for!

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[alternia_strength]

For now, the Highblood is the only real source of serious rage. I have some confusion regarding the Maid, but it is not as if there has ever been an easy answer to the matter of Aradia and I. [And THAT was an admission right there.]

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[bestestfurrend]

That's true...

She offered to take me on a tour of the place after I'd met you! You don't mind, right?

[She's going anyway if he does, whoooops.

Also she finally starts drawing, a plain little doodle of a plush kitten.]

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[alternia_strength]

Not at all. She is a lowblood, but honestly I think she would be a better influence on you than most. There are far worse influences that you could...

So cats? Cats are cute?

[You might want to make sure he doesn't draw a Tiger.]

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[bestestfurrend]

[She is not in the mood to get into an argument with him over how irrelevant the hemospectrum is, so luckily the thought of kitties distracts her.

...also remember what her lusus was. She's hardly the right person to stop him from drawing a tiger.]

Of course they are! The cutest! Here, you try.

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[alternia_strength]

[Honestly, this conversation and the next had put him in the almost terrifying position of questioning the hemospectrum. The less he thought about questioning it, the better. This was going to be ... difficult for him.]

Alright. I will draw a cat.

[And a Tiger it would be... a fully grown one that would appear right in the middle of the two of them, looking at both of them and growling before he growled right back.

Hard to say if he surprised it or not. Good news was he could will it away if it was a real problem.]

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[bestestfurrend]

[FFF ENORMOUS KITTY. This was not exactly what she meant but she's not complaining!

...except when it growls at her moirail. That is unacceptable, and in a moment Nepeta is between them, claws out and snarling a warning.]

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[alternia_strength]

[It started to swipe and he growled as well, the thing disappearing entirely as he released the will that held it in place. It wasn't like it actually took anything from him, but he wasn't going to let something like that stick around.]

Hmmm... cute must include harmless.